New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-07
THE BURIAL OF VIsCOUNT FORTH.
THE SAD ENDING OLA ROMANTIC CAREER
A YOUNG SCOTTISH vIsCoUNT ELoPER DIES IN
POVERTY AT ST. LUKEs HOSPITAL

POVERTY AT 81. LUkb hoSTiiHl-
About fifteen years ago the newspapers OF this city
published long accounts OF tie elopemept 10 TINS
country OF Young lad OF fifteen. heir to an eardom
in Scotland with his erandmotbers Durserymaid, q
girl five years older thsn him'ef sad requei 10
this story was finished on thursday last by the
death of this young man at 81. Lukes hosp"ai III
this city.
Tbe name of the Young man was George Essex
Montifex Drgmmond, yscount OF Forth, and II be
had lived he would have become In due lime Eari o.
Perth and Duke de Meiort. His history was
romantic but sad one. lawyer OF this city VITO has
been almost from the fist friend OF the young hsh'
gave to a TRIBUNE reporter yesterday afternoon inc
story of his lite. lie the Oldest grandchild oil the
Earl of Perth and Duke OF MeIiort. The family is an
extremely old one, the present Earl being the twenty
second of the name. At the time OF william oil
Oranpe the family espoused the cause of the Suars
and were compelled to flee to France where the hing
of France made the head OF the family Duke OF
uelort Their estates in Scotland were conliscaed,
but were restored &c the family some sixty years ago
Few children ever born In the fanlIy, ana they
were generally girls, so that the titie aud estites
generally descended distant relatives The last
Earl had one daughter. Lady Willoughby de Eresby,
a ,eusin OF the present Earl With her the present
Earl cousin of the late Earl her father Is now con-
tending for the property. he claiming that 1t should
90 with the title. his property yields an annual
iental of about s3C 900 His ouly son married
granddaughter of the Earl OF Esses, the Hon. Mis7
Camel and as a result OF that marriage George was
born on September 3, 1896. HIS father died In 1861
and his mother in 1864. and he then went to i've
with his grandmother, the Hon. Mrs Capei
She had in her employ nursemaid i've years Older
than young Dru nmond, who !, described as oeing
handsome and attractive girl. Her maiden name was
Eliza Sheldon Harrison. and she was the daughter OF
a weltodo London lead merchant. Early in lie
she had elot ed with ner fathers coachman and had
been married to him. For this she mad been cast on
by her father and being obliged 10 earn living mad
entered the service OF Lady Capel ~ hurseinald
Young Gorge became greatly attached to her ana she
appeared to return his affection. Lady Cspel died
wear later and his grandfather, Earl OF Perth, came
Tor George live with him. Tho girl then frightened
George with the story that his step-grandmoiher
was to 1ut him ont OF the and they planned
an elopement, he being ignorant OF her preViols
marriage They bought tickets TO quebec ana tnen
to throw his grandfather OF the track changed them
With broker for tickets to New-iOrk Ihey came 10
this country in 1872, and finally drifted down 10
BrooA haven, l.. L. where they lived Tor hve wears on
a small farm About ten years ago he obtained em-
ployment as q salesman with Carhart Nmti0rd N
co clotber. at Broadway and Canal-st and re-
NAMED there until the failure Of that firm some t@o
wears ago. Since then hr had lived rather precarlons
existence lie was lime employed in the 'ss'
room of 4" The World" add 1t is said thai ne tnere
caught the cold which led ultimately % his death
He gradually tailed In health and two months ago
wa, discharged from ST. Luke's after long stay
there. lie continued to grow worse ana was again
admitted to the hospital where he died late Thursday
nj Int. Ills grandfather has always Oeeh deslrois OF
reconciliation, but has Insisted max nc must give up
In. wife and child. Thi. he refused to do, aud made
il condition OF his return that provision shonid ne
made tor their support. Lately, however, sinco he
III,
hoInS. His grandfather had promised 10 obtain him
commission In the army 4 he would return, ana ms
friend thought that il he had nor broken down ne
would have accepted his grandidthers terms ana
would have returned to England.
The stoGy told by bs wie oilers from mat OF
Drummond's friend IN several Particular" Sne
denies emphatically that she was ever married. TO her
fathers coachmsn aud says that II Is not likely that
the present Earl has her marriage certificate "a he
csims TO have il he had he would have sent IT, or
COPY of it TO George who, she saws, wouiu not nave
lived with her If she had been that kind OF woman
She also gives tho date of her marriage to Drum.
mOnd a. 1874 instead OF 1877. They we're married
at Brookhaven by the Rev. Mr.. Cooper. lie IL dead,
and the original certificate was sent TO England TO
he used In a lawsnit there but a ccpy easily be
obtained and both the witnesses are now living sac
SAID that dunng the last sixteen ,eafs 'iumnond
lad only received A2O RON his grahuihlhei, w. Hn
aunt. Mrs Ives, sent him mones IRON time TO tme
For the last two gears she had supported herself and
him by making ccclesastcal robes at No ~ DrOi d.
way. They bad two children, n son. Malcolm, who
died nine years az tie age OF one year, ana lltte
girl, Mary Harriet, eight years old She also s"id
that her living with Drummond WA only an excuse
the part OF his grandiather to get rid Of blll.
They wanted to get I'd OF him. she said because
he stood In the wa, of others"
The funeral took place i:3D p M Yesterday AT
Trinity Church. II was small aud quiet one Mrs,
child Who scrmed hardly TO realize the soiemnity oil
the scene, a feminine friend. John Il. and, who
has been tie young NiscOunts solicitor and TREND Tor
many wears and few newspaper reporters were
alone in the great church -rbe body was inelo'ed In
u sealed metal colin bearing its lid silver plate
iuscribed " George Essex Montiiex prnmmcnd;
Visconnt OF Forth born September 3, 1885, died
Aupust E. 1897" The burial service read by the
Rev. Harry BAumann assistant pastor oil TRINITY
Church alter which the bonv was taken 10 tne
churchyard aud deposited in MI relands family
vault.
A cable disoatch was sent 10 the Earl of Perth yes
terdav and Mr. ireland will write to him. aud It Is cN-
pect'd that Drnmmondn body VIII ul'ni'tely pe
taken to Scotland ana placed in the family vault
there.